lack of epistemic effort is also the observable thing that distinguishes moldbug’s “callous altruism” from genuine charity
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an observable “epistemic effort” correlate of virtue signaling distinguishes it from virtue http://www.owl232.net/papers/passivity.htm …pic.twitter.com/a9ugfoYhLt
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this is what made me think of ithttps://twitter.com/hrcastor/status/1000691382112215040 …
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(the main force of the paper is that doing nothing rather than trying to solve problems is usually the best public policy)
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are there phenomena/institutions/techs that harness low-epistemic-effort energies for good?
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The next level: people who don't care about the good of society, but *do* care about perceiving themselves as epistemically scrupulous
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Third hypothesis: People are seeking high ideals like justice, but their laziness, defensiveness, and other intellectual vices cause them to avoid the hard work of determining what actually promotes justice.
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I want to marry this paper
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Huemer is love, Huemer is life
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Before I clicked on the link I thought, "This is Heumer." There's something about how he writes in sequence from idea to idea that is identifiable.
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also the webpage layout and colours are distinctly huemer
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or of Yeats
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Thank you so much for this, I have been looking for a piece like this that hews so close and so clearly to my personal political beliefs, and now I finally have it.
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We need to put more epistemic effort into measuring epistemic effort.
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In other words, the virtue in social activism is in its performance & not its achievements. Correspondingly, the the target issues of injustice & inequality are actually the bedrock of this solipsistic performance without which the basis & for virtue-signalling does not exist.
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If true beliefs are untestable, then who cares? How much time do the faithful, holding to some religious creed, spend in trying to verify if their belief is true? For religioids of all types, resources are for apologetics, not to test the consistency of belief to mundane reality.
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Love to expend tremendous energy instramentally judging the merit of t h e s l a v e r i n g v o i d
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